Sea Shadow (General Kirigan & Nikolai Lantsov)

Chapter 4

Small science

After finishing her breakfast Kaida didn't want to go back to her room so she decided to go and walk around the Little Palace.

While she was walking she paid attention to every detail around her, the Little Palace would be horrible from the outside, or at least it was what she thought, but from the inside was amazing, all the drawings on the wood walls, the gold candles hanging on the walls.

She ended in front of a pair of big doors open. In front of her was a huge shelf full of books of different colors, sizes, covers... her eyes grew with amusement and happiness. She walked in, she didn't care if she could or not, she just did it. The library in front of her had two floors and a big window where the sun came in. She walked towards the shelf and looked at the titles of the books. Every book she could imagen was there and then a question came to her mind. "Could it be that there is a book of my small science?" Excited to answer that question, she started looking at the gold letters at the top of every shelf with the categories of each book; fantasy, romance, drama... Her search took her to the second floor and she finally found the shelf with the category of Grisha history.

She started looking to every book until she found the book with the title"Kind of Grishas" she took the book out and looking at the blue cover with gold letters she sat down in one of the chairs of the second floor and left the book on the table in front of her.

"Kind of Grisha" she read the title and opened it carefully. It looked old and she didn't want to break it.

She passed the pages reading every detail of every kind of Grisha it had been through all the years.

"Shadow summoner" she read when she was almost at the end of the book.

"Shadow summoners are capable of controlling the shadows, and with enough power they can produce the cut. A powerful weapon made of shadow capable of cutting a man in half in seconds.

Years ago one of them created the shadow with the intention of destroying Ravka and becoming the King. The Black Heretic was the one of the most powerful Grisha in history and it is because of him that the Fold exists."

Under that small introduction to the Shadow summoners history were the steps to control that kind of small science and some warnings about them.

Without interest in that, Kaida turned the pages finding the Sun summoner.

"The Sun summoners are capable of creating light as bright as the sun. They are the only ones capable of destroying the Fold but for now, none has seen one.

Ravka hopes and pray to the Saints that one day, a Sun summoner would save them and destroy the Fold"

Kaida stopped reading there and turned the last page of the book, there was nothing about Empathic Grisha, nothing at all. Frustrated, she closed the book and laid back on the chair. She stood there for a few minutes when the feeling of being observed made her feel nervous. She took the book from the table and with the feeling of being observed she put it back where it was and started to walk back to the stair when something on the shelf called her attention. She turned to face the shelf and in front of her was the same symbol she had on the front part of her shoulder. She frowned with confusion and took the book out of the shelf.

"We have to find her!" she heard two guards passing away the library. Quickly, she opened her kefta and hid the book inside it before starting to run down the stairs and out of the library.

She crossed the corridor running as fast as she could to her room. When she finally arrived in her room she signed calmly, but that calm disappeared when she heard The Darkling walking towards her room. She opened her eyes worriedly and ran to hide the book under her mattress, then, she ran to the bathroom and took her shirt, bra, boots and pants off, wet her hair quickly and covered her body with a towel.